Probably now, but amongst those who made that, the Brothers would have been more familiar, many of them come form the same generation that Charles Schultz was depicting in Peanuts and there's at these three or four strips of that in which Linus is reading or references TBK.

Doc Steve

The Brothers Kramazov is more profound in that it poses concrete questons about what it means to have faith in both God and Man in the light of the horrors of modernity*.

*Dostoevsky's "modernity" begins a few decades earlier than it does for Western authors. For Dostoevsky, the horror of modern man is that he has rationalized himself away from God and departed his "native soil."